Sunday, May 27, 2012

Painting the hull

Sanded the areas I filled yesterday, there are still several places that could use some more and many areas that should have been sanded better. But I am not going for yacht finish so this should be good enough.

Vacuumed and washed the hull to make sure there is no dust left on the surface. Then it was on to painting.

First layer

The picture does not show the color properly also the light ply is shining through, I will need another two or three coats before it is done. Below you can see a picture of the color (RAL 4074). I have not painted the whole sheer plank as I will need to glue the rub rail there.

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This blog is about building a small rowing and sailing boat, it is designed by John Welsford and is called Walkabout.

I will try to document my build in as much detail as possible, partly for my own memory but also because I have had great help and inspiration from other boat building blogs so hopefully other people might find this useful as well.

I am not a boat builder and really have no idea what I am doing, so the blog is a document of what I did not about how it should be done....

I hope to be on the water during summer of 2012. (We all know now that did not happen so let's aim for summer 2013).